Committee meeting - March 24, 2022

Sarah McKone

Secretary to the Committee    
March 24, 2022
   
Present: Andrew McAlorum, Bill Baer, Daryl Dore, Don Duff-McCracken, Erick Engelke, Greg Parks, Greg Smith, Jason Testart, Lawrence Folland, Lori Paniak, Nick Springate, Pam Fluttert, Pratik Patel, Steven Bourque, Trevor Bain

Guest: Joe Kwan

Regrets: Adam Savage, Paul Miskovsky,  Robyn Landers

Agenda 

  1. Presentation: Update on WCMS (Daryl Dore, Joe Kwan) [15 min.] 
  2. Chair’s remarks (Steven Bourque) [5 min.]
  3. Approval of the minutes from Thursday, February 24, 2022 [5 min.]
  4. Discuss WatIAM sponsorship (Jason Testart) [10 min.]
  5. Discuss changes to Zoom and Duo 2FA (Lawrence Folland) [10 min.]
  6. Discuss cyber security, elevated vectors of Attack (Erick Engelke, Jason Testart) [10 min.]
  7. Discuss wi-fi performance improvements (Erick Engelke) [5 min.]
  8. Discuss increased quotas for engineering faculty on the managed backup system (Erick Engelke) [5 min.]
  9. Other business and roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]

  10. Next CTSC Meeting [Will be held Thursday, April 7, at 1:30 p.m.] 

Presentation: Update on WCMS (Daryl Dore, Jow Kwan) [15 m

  • Review presentation slides for additional information. 

  • Has post-migration remediation improved? 

    • The more complex the site, the more complex migration may be. Working with the vendor team to try and improve migration. There will be more resources available to support remediation post-migration. 

  • Drupal acknowledges that the upgrade from a 7 to 8 was a complete re-write and that future updates will be much less complex. 

  • Arts co-op students are available to support this work if desired. 

  • Specific questions can be emailed to Joe Kwan 

Chair's remarks

  • None.

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting 

  • The previous meeting’s minutes were accepted as distributed. 

Discuss WatIAM sponsorship (Jason Tesart) [10 min.] 

Comments and discussion

  • A small group outside of CTSC to organize and develop a proposal. This could include a discussion of a WatIAM steering committee.

    • Email Lawrence if you are interested in participating.  

Discuss changes to Zoom and Duo 2FA (Lawrence Folland) [10 min.] 

Comments and discussion

  • This was a result of the conflict in Ukraine and the United States clamping down on the enforcement of sanctions.

  • This may continue to impact additional services used at the University. 

  • When an analysis was completed regarding the impact on users most results were from graduate and post-doc students in Iran. 

  • Most students are familiar with VPN services to get around blocks.  

  • IST is reviewing a full tunnel VPN controlled by a security group and will discuss other authentication methods if necessary. The scope of access to this resource will be specific.

Discuss cyber security and elevated vectors of attack (Erick Engelke, Jason Testart) [10 min.] 

Comments and discussion

  • What are the major challenges to cyber security given the current global climate?

  • Belief that currently, we are not at any level of risk. This could change depending on the federal government or university decisions, or how members of the UW community conduct themselves on social media.  

  • The biggest risk is a denial of service and would be network-based. 

  • UW resources could be used as part of the conflict from either side.  

  • Concern regarding Red Hat or Fedora servers that have not been updated 

  • Qualys is pretty good at detecting through regular scanning 

  • Greater concern regarding bugs such as the Linux sudo bug 

  • New staff member starting in April who will support vulnerability tracking 

  • If the threat environment changes communication will be sent 

Discuss wi-fi performance improvements (Erick Engelke) [10 min.] 

Comments and discussion

  • Engineering has set up monitoring machines and seen an improvement in Wi-fi since the latest patches. Will coordinate with Steve times that Wi-fi is disappearing completely.

  • For those interested in the details of the monitoring device, Erick will send an email with additional information.  

  • Issues with configuration and management have prevented deploying the remaining APs (approx. 800 outstanding) 

  • If you continue to experience issues with the Wi-fi please submit tickets with the time/date and the devices mac address  

Other Business/Roundtable

IST, Client Services, Andrew 

  • Mail Chimp to be replaced with Upaknee. Currently completing contract negotiations with the intent to be live at the end of spring term.

    • Can share this change despite the contract details not being finalized.